Bug#1004793: vtk7: FTBFS with ffmpeg 5.0

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Peter,

Am Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 04:36:13AM +0100 schrieb Peter Green:
> vtk7 is one of the (possiblly the) last blockers for the ffmpeg transition
> that is in testing and is not marked for autoremoval.
> The last 7.x upstream release was over 5 years ago. The last vtk7 upload
> by someone listed in "uploaders" was  over 2 years ago. Since then the
> package has been kept on life-supportby team-uploads and a NMU.
> ...

There is an ongoing effort to replace vtk7 by vtk9 but as you might
imagine its not that simple.

> The following source packages or the binaries they produce declare relationships
> on vtk7 packages that do not have alternatives.
> 
> depends and/or build-depends:
> binoculars
> camitk
> dune-grid
> facet-analyser
> gdcm
> mayavi2
> nifti2dicom
> openems
> python-mne
> siconos
> vistrails
> vtk-dicom

There is ongoing work on these packages and if I'm not misleaded there
are bugs filed against all these packages.
 
> recommends:
> debian-science

I've just replaced the recommends / suggests of vtk7 by vtk9.

> dipy
> 
> suggests:
> debian-med

Fixed in Git - I see no need for an upload right now.

> In particular gdcm is a key package due to the fact that opencv build-depends on it.

I'm CCing the gdcm bug - the upstream maintainer is just in CC of your
mail.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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